06 / FOUNDERS & ADVISORS
The people behind the firm.
The pattern that built this firm kept repeating: technology that works, and people who never get it. Every project we have run has been a version of the same problem, the invention is not the hard part; getting it to the people who need it is. Agencity is the structure for working on that gap across many companies at once.
Arjun Vad
Founder · San Francisco- Early investor in CLD-9 (robotics-driven personalized medicine), in before Antler and Boost VC. Operating partner for the company's go-to-market across three regions.
- Co-founded a healthcare AI company: raised $650K, scaled to 20,000 users in India, and secured a state-government pilot on healthcare distribution involving 400 doctors.
- Built the first version of Agencity, a platform helping students get into YC-backed companies, to 4M impressions and 7,000 users on zero marketing spend.
- Founding team at Axal (a16z-backed); machine learning research at UC San Diego; helped build a full-sized humanoid robot with UCSD's Triton Droids team.
- Runs a content engine reaching a 500K+ monthly audience of founders, operators, and investors. Studies at UCLA.
Amitesh Das
Co-Founder · Bangalore- Engineered embedded video-watermarking protocols that reached Y Combinator's final rounds, building reverse-diffusion video watermarking years before OpenAI adopted similar technology.
- Selected at a 2.2% acceptance rate to consult for venture capital firms at 180 Degrees Consulting.
- Has run teams of 100+, and built sponsored sports ecosystems from scratch across five leagues, co-founding OFFSIDE, a Red Bull-backed football league with 200+ active participants.
- Carries a personal network of 15,000+ operators and builders across India's startup ecosystem, exactly the distribution this firm runs on.
- 20+ Mathematics Olympiad medals, clearing NMTC, IOQM, and the IMO, with international ranks of 6 and 8.
The team and the circle around the firm
Beyond the founders, Agencity runs with a team of 50+ operations people across its markets, and a circle of 60 advisors and strategic partners: general partners at leading venture firms, prominent technology founders, family offices, and senior government relationships across the US, India, and the Gulf.
Named advisor profiles are added to this page as they are made public. Individual introductions available in conversation.